United States v. Robert Lee Looper

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Convicted of failure to submit to induction into the armed forces of the United States in violation of 50 U.S.C.A. App. § 462 and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, defendant, a member of the Radio Church of God and an asserted conscientious objector, appeals. He raises numerous grounds on which he claims that the judgment of the district court should be reversed. We reach and consider only one — the ruling that defendant not be permitted to testify in his own defense because he refused on account of his religious beliefs to take the oath or affirmation prescribed by…